: i CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS PAGE 2 2 200 ader was in effect § 5 with despair. Sten The breach came as Rita began lashing the Gulf Coast with rain and wind — on the van oy of tian der was in effec Fenn 4 “It’s like looking at a murder,” trell Jefferson said as he watched the and up to 500,000 people in southwestern Louisiana headed north on jammed on the east bank of the ee ne Ne A spo news at a church in Lafayette, 125 miles west of New Orleans. “The first time roads. State police said flooding in coastal Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes been ch for Mayor Ray Nagin said officials believed the neighborhood had is bad. After that, you numb up.”. . forced pase fete by dae, ourche an parish n cleared of residents | co Parish - heavily fl 2 ee been wa war Poured over and through sandbags, gravel and soil that had Rita was oe to come ashore carly Saturday somewhere near the eee ee dens savy looded by Katrina - water ine me. : from the new breach was threatening ing from one side and a storm surge along Hit re ‘0 temporarily patch breaks in the Industrial Canal levee, said Dan Texas-Louisiana line. There were fears it would stall, dumping as much as 25 bayou was lapping at the top of a levee on the other. | he sid tae voor nan wth the Comps of Engineers, Around midafiemoon, inches of tains . "Mark Madary, a St. Bernard Parish councilman, said houses that were He said thar (ud £0 appear to be rising anymore. _. Forecasters said the hurricane could bring 3-t0 5 inches of rain to New under 12 feet sf owes after Katrina would probably get an additional 3 feet. bur fe said that the Corps could not immediately reach the Spot to repair it, Orleans - dangerously close to the 6 inches Army engineers say could over- He accused the Army Corps of Engi of not rebuilding the levee properly. 1 Rickard Wagram ta ele emowe the wate angi the patched leves. Another fear was that astrong storm surge would “Everybodys hermes ech ceed hope their dreams aren’,” he Col. Richard Wagenaar, Corps of Engineers district chief in New Or- push water through the walls. . ’ : _ leans, said the overtopping of the’ levees would set back repairs at least three of the a se .. said. 4 tee~ ir teed i Because pptoaching storm, authorities called off the search for Associated Press wr; chelle Roberts 7 =~ He ei, ele June is stil the target for getting che levers back bodies, and Katrina’ death toll cross the Grif stood at 1,078, indud- eye and Mary Foster in New Or evels, : leans, Julia Silverman in Lafayette, La., and Doug Simpson in Baton Rouge, La., contributed to this report. ing 841 in Louisiana. _ ; ond ts hu protect ag tombe j Lake by 5 miles of marshland need be only 12° feat tall 4 BveeS odwa t protect against flooding n the Mississippi River and hurricanes are built by the : Marsh ont rn atpd Of Engineers and are maintained by local levee districts. The Corps and the tal districts share ie EVERYTHING Pontchartrain eect asd bud ones Of hurricane levees, while the Mississippi River levees are a federal project. Local levee distr i) Construction money from each distr 's share -- : . of property taxes and state financing. } rn , _ cine oo ‘Sich: The height and shape of a levee is based on the | ; torpach the situcturs, and the se i tape pO ft os ge Of the sinscture, Pantchartrsin Parigh Changelour Sound : de Sand businesses in developed areas along bayous and the Mississippi iver have successful argued that the benefits of building levees around their communities outweigh the costs of construction. 2 er bie er A pa a “ ~ Merion Barataria Different piobes of the lovee ~ a More than 60 miles of levees and floodwails from east of the Harvey Canal to west of Lake Cataouatche ~ including this stretch of floodwall and yet-to-be-raised levee slong Bayou State Park ~ are years from Small from and Baraara bys no West Sek nagheriooe © ST. BERIARD-PLAQUEMINES PARISH LINE ©) EASTER EW ORLEANS AND ST, BERR Pam ar. aa sooty toll oo a — - iat ibs, a , 9 over he 170 Street Cana The Hammond Highway over the replaced A model indicates storm overtop a | Computer models indicate tags naps een ie this hole #p the V-shape area levees meet at foduoees at naw ut — + tr ot ea ease eee ey hn Re Ph prs dant darrell AM On marae tb Aaareran Mrs. Beatrice Maye LEADERSHIP asset is a word on everyone's lips. The young attack it and the old grow wistful for it. Parents hiave lost it and police seek it. Experts claim it and artists Philosophers reconcile ir (as se thority) with liberty and theolo- gians demonstrate its compatibil- _ ity with conscience. Everybod rees that there is less of it than chene used to be. Leadership is the pivotal force behind successful or- ganizations and that to create yi- tal and viable organizations, lead- ership is necessary to hel orga- nizations develop a new vision of what they can: be, then mobilize the organization change toward new vision. Some great leaders are Moses, Peticles, Julius Cae- sar, Jesus Christ; Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Arch- bishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, and Winston Churchill among many others, Management vs. Leadership: Managers are eople who do things right and fea ers are people who do’ the right thing. Let’s get rid of man- agement! People do not want to be managed. They want to be led Ask your horse. You can lead your 9-22, 2005 to manage someone, manage your- self. Se this well and you will be ® .. ready to stop managing. And start leading. Leadership involves com- munication. Communication cre- ates meaning for people. It is the only way afy group, small or large, can become aligned behind the overarching coals ofan organiza- tion. Talent, genius, education will not make leaders, but persistence and determination are omnipo- tent. Leaders might use five skills- I. The ability to accept people as they are, not as. you would lke them to be. 2. The capacity to approach relationships and btblenis in terms of the present rather than the past, though we-can leam from the past. . 3. The ability to treat people who are close to you with the same courteous attention’ that you ex- tend to strangers and casual ac; quaintances. We tend to take for granted those to whom we are clos- est. 4. The ability to trust others, even if the risk seems great, 5. The ability to do without manage him to drink. If you want. constant approval and recognition from’ others. [gPhould ‘not ee | matter how many people like lead- ers. The important thing is the quality of work thar results from collaborating with them: It-is the large’ part € a leader's job to take’ en To the successful hesder: fail- Ure is a beaning, the springboard of hope. To worry puts obstacles in the way of clear thinking. Effective leadership negates Protest, grievance, and career change as well as resignation and apathy. Lao Tzu said, “To lead, we must follow.” ~ Practice Advice for Daughters A lim Rouse Phote wk we Greenville Mayor Don Parrot and East Carolina University’s hancellor, Perennial advice for teenagers p, Steve Ballard flank Dr. Sallye McKee the new assistant to the Chancel- Preparing to go to college - lor for Instiutional: Diversity at the university during a recent affair to See Mrs May Page’ 11 officially welcome Dr. McKee on board. . © ' , North Carolina Central University Rolls Out N DURHAM, NC - North Carolina ea would like arid identify with as ings. Central University (NCCU) unveiled being a symbol or trademark of This: new ‘mascot desi n is in- its new eagle logo designs Friday dur- NCCU a etics and the university. tended ‘for use as a coordinatin ing a celebration that included music, Before each meeting, commit- _ symbol for all sports-related and food and fun. tee.members were asked to share \ school :spirit activities of the Uni- “The NCCU Eagles will enter the each round of ptoots with their col- versity, ‘The seal remains the univer- 2005. season with a fresh new mascot leagues for discussion at the meet- . ing the Tuskegee Airmen’s 34th Na- spurn it, while scholars want it. house too water, but you cannot Ti ¢ Airmen: Still Making a Difference Tek Ride lend Te Gide Pers hirmen on eda nee ORLANDO, FL - For those attend- dora, before ebearzcac ‘teaser’ they decided to. stay: late and tional Conven- na ea a tion August 19th, it was un-like any they'd seen in many, many yeats and Milton Bul- lock was there to witness the historical Bullock event. As for Bullock, a resident of Edgecombe County, NC and one of the original members of the Platters who now resides in Tarboro it became a lifetime event. Bullock recently became an hon- orary member of. the Wilson V. Eagleson Tuskegee Airmen Chapter of Goldsboro and was the featured celebrity guest performer for the oc- casion along with famed millionaire attorney Willie Gary, who was the featured keynote speaker. With some 88 surviving Tuskegee Airmen of the original leg- endary 992 attending, this years’ grouping was ein of pilots, op- eration officers, intelligence officers, meteorologists, étiginicerinig OPicers, flight surgeons, aircraft and engine trol tower operators, and administra- tors and others that formed support services for the air force squadron. That night, ‘these African American WWII heroes would get their trea- sured memories rekindled with the selected, ‘nostalgic music Bullock had planned for them. Sn sere Spend dedicae his very 50) ‘ormed aca e) to all as women, wives iar el with gy ee Spots” favorite—’To Each His Own”. Traditionally. right after the awards keynote sped A ment, they usually make a straight line enjoy the entertainment. The proof was in the pudding as they say; for thete were so many.’ senior. couples on. the floor in theit 60's, 70's and 80's even the your folk in attendance were startled wi amazement. Coordinator for the 2005 Tuskegee Airmen Convention, Col. 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